Do I give stars to people who constantly remind me why I hate my country? Is that how this works?

I appreciate Maddow's critique of the Bush Doctrine, particularly on it's radical nature as policy, as well as her analysis of the CIA acting as an unaccountable 5th arm of the armed forces. However, she misses the moral responsibility we have in Afghanistan. If she is going to read into Obama's decisions (7:20, Obama not speaking "bluntly" about Pakistan...), she should also read into the moral imperatives for staying in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban from regaining control, a situation that will lead to a brutal oppression of a people (if you haven't seen a woman being stoned to death, I suggest looking it up), and an environment that allows groups such as Al Qaeda to function.

Certainly there are other places where such brutality occurs, I would counter this simply by saying we are not in any of those places, we are, however, in Afghanistan.

Also, we could very well be fighting with the CIA in Pakistan for reasons that are politically viable to the Pakistani government. I can't imagine it would go over well if the government said "oh yeah the US is in Pakistan fighting a war, it's cool." At least with CIA the Pakistani government can criticize it.

Overall, Maddow critique of policy is totally legitimate.

Why can't you guys just be nice? C'mon guys stop kicking the hornets nest. It's cold up here right now, so we're just trying to cuddle up real nice and live happy lives. Stop poking our sandy neighbors, k? Obama seems like a great guy. One of you should tell him to stick to the campaign stuff cause that stuff seemed pretty golden. Here in Canada we have a saying "if it ain't broke don't fix it", so why all of these changes I can't actually believe in? :( Protest or something.

Laaaaaaaaaaaame duuuuuuuuuuuck, if we're lucky. Otherwise, foreign children will grow up despising both of our political parties equally.